Israeli aggression targets western Syria; several army personnel injured

In yet another act of aggression against the Syrian territory, the Israeli regime has carried out a missile attack on Syria's northwestern Province of Hama.

Syria's official news agency SANA said the air raid targeted Hama’s countryside and the coastal city of Tartous on Sunday, with the Syrian military intercepting some of the Israeli missiles.

“At about 07:15 a.m. local time on Sunday, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial act of aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of northern Lebanon, targeting some sites in the countryside of Tartous and Hama Provinces, and our air defenses intercepted the missiles and downed some of them,” SANA quoted an unnamed military source as saying.

“The aggression caused the injury of three army personnel, in addition to some material damages,” the news agency added.

Local media sources showed a huge billow of smoke rising from the site of the Israeli missile attack on the town of Masyaf in Hama.

Early on Tuesday, Israeli aircraft carried out a new strike against the international airport in Aleppo from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of the coastal city of Latakia.

Syrian media, quoting a military source, reported that the attack caused only material damage to the runway of Aleppo International Airport, and took the airport out of service.

Syrian media had earlier said that the country’s air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles coming from the direction of the Mediterranean, shooting down a number of them.

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